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Karan
Karan

Reputation: 498

Issue with giving roles with a command Discord Py

I have made a command to set someone ROLE, However, it's throwing errors. 

Command raised an exception: AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'add_roles'

Is there anything wrong I have did? I am using the latest discord py version.

@bot.command()
async def set_role(ctx,member = None,val: int = None):
    ab = member
    ab = ab.replace("<","")
    ab = ab.replace(">","")
    ab = ab.replace("@","")
    ab = ab.replace("!","")
    user = bot.get_user(int(ab))
    if val == 1:
        role = discord.utils.get(ctx.guild.roles, name="Test")
        await user.add_roles(role)
        await ctx.send('Updated')

Upvotes: 1

Views: 311

Answers (2)

1Fresy
1Fresy

Reputation: 21

to give a role to a member u need to give the member and the name of the role as inputs. for example:

" ?set_role @clay#9871 example "

the bot gonna search for a role name 'example' from the guild roles if the bot didn't find the role it will send "role not found" that's what the "try" and "except" for

@bot.command()
async def set_role(ctx,member :discord.Member,role):
    try:
      add_role= discord.utils.get(ctx.guild.roles, name=role)
      await member.add_roles(add_role)      
      await ctx.send('Updated')
    except:
      await ctx.send("role not found!")

Upvotes: 0

Tin Nguyen
Tin Nguyen

Reputation: 5330

user = bot.get_user(int(ab))

This creates a user object. It is not affiliated to a guild / discord server. By design you cannot do add_roles.
Reason being your bot might not share a guild with this user. Or your bot might share multiple guilds with this user. But how does it know which guild you are actually adressing?

You need to create a member object. This could be done with:

member = ctx.guild.get_member(int(ab))

Now you have a member object and you can await add_roles.

await member.add_roles(role)

https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#discord.Member.add_roles

Upvotes: 2

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